[buccaneer81]

Obama has visited USAF procurement, I see.

[mamelukesabre]

If it was my decision, we’d do service life extension programs on all planes forever IN ADDITION to procuring new planes. Keep them all going indefinitely. When they’re too outdated to put a pilot in them and send into harms way, convert them to UAVs and run them until they get shot down.

[LibLieSlayer]

One thing good will come of all of this... domestic spending will have to be cut by 80% because after obama, we are going to have to spend a tremendous amount to get back on track to actually... you know... remain the STRONGEST NATION ON EARTH! Being the STRONGEST is NOT a bad thing! ALL dims want us to cease any trace of our Super Power status... hussein wants us living in mud huts like his brother George in the Soweto slum.

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[Red Steel]

The USAF has terminated Lockheed F-22 production with 186 aircraft in inventory after 2011,

Will see after the Rats lose Congress this year that is when F-22 makes a comeback.

[ryan71]

We only have one side of the “gap” therefore it's not a gap.

We have older F-15’s, F-16’s, some F-22’s, a shutdown F-22 line and an F-35 that probably will be killed.

I'm sure there are future designs out there but how are we going to pay for them in a welfare society? Europe?

[truelyconservative]

well this is decent news. finally some fiscal responsibility. why is it every military program consistently overshoots its budget by significant and sometimes ongodly (iraq) amounts?

[spokeshave]

"1,763 F-35s over the next 30 years to modernise its fighter fleet."

....isn't the F-22 the fighter and the F-35 everything else?